AQA A Every paper; AQA B Every paper; OCR Every component · Skills: assessment, interpretations, unseen texts and connections
Genre, critical lenses and interpretations
Questions for every board that sets this text. · The lesson
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Question 11 mark
Closed book or clean copy, as the paper allows
AQA A 7712, AQA B 7717, OCR H472
Spec and skills
Paper scope: AQA A Every paper; AQA B Every paper; OCR Every component
Topic spec AQA A Every paper
Topic spec AQA B Every paper
Topic spec OCR Every component
Skill: ale-k02-genre
Knowledge check
AQA A-level English Literature A (7712), Version 1.7.1, 1 October 2025; AQA A-level English Literature B (7717), Version 1.5.1, 1 October 2025; OCR A Level English Literature (H472), Version 2.2, October 2026
Aristotle's Poetics traces the tragic hero's fall to hamartia. What does the term most accurately mean?
Question 21 mark
Closed book or clean copy, as the paper allows
AQA A 7712, AQA B 7717, OCR H472
Spec and skills
Paper scope: AQA A Every paper; AQA B Every paper; OCR Every component
Topic spec AQA A Every paper
Topic spec AQA B Every paper
Topic spec OCR Every component
Skill: ale-k02-genre
Knowledge check
AQA A-level English Literature A (7712), Version 1.7.1, 1 October 2025; AQA A-level English Literature B (7717), Version 1.5.1, 1 October 2025; OCR A Level English Literature (H472), Version 2.2, October 2026
Which moment in Othello is the clearest anagnorisis?
Question 31 mark
Closed book or clean copy, as the paper allows
AQA A 7712, AQA B 7717, OCR H472
Spec and skills
Paper scope: AQA A Every paper; AQA B Every paper; OCR Every component
Topic spec AQA A Every paper
Topic spec AQA B Every paper
Topic spec OCR Every component
Skill: ale-k02-genre
Knowledge check
AQA A-level English Literature A (7712), Version 1.7.1, 1 October 2025; AQA A-level English Literature B (7717), Version 1.5.1, 1 October 2025; OCR A Level English Literature (H472), Version 2.2, October 2026
Which kind of tragic plot does Aristotle's Poetics single out as the finest?
Question 41 mark
Closed book or clean copy, as the paper allows
AQA A 7712, AQA B 7717, OCR H472
Spec and skills
Paper scope: AQA A Every paper; AQA B Every paper; OCR Every component
Topic spec AQA A Every paper
Topic spec AQA B Every paper
Topic spec OCR Every component
Skill: ale-k02-genre
Skill: ale-k02-quotation
Knowledge check
AQA A-level English Literature A (7712), Version 1.7.1, 1 October 2025; AQA A-level English Literature B (7717), Version 1.5.1, 1 October 2025; OCR A Level English Literature (H472), Version 2.2, October 2026
One reading of King Lear sees Act 1 as hubris and the storm as nemesis. Which line best supports the idea of hubris?
Question 51 mark
Closed book or clean copy, as the paper allows
AQA A 7712, AQA B 7717, OCR H472
Spec and skills
Paper scope: AQA A Every paper; AQA B Every paper; OCR Every component
Topic spec AQA A Every paper
Topic spec AQA B Every paper
Topic spec OCR Every component
Skill: ale-k02-genre
Knowledge check
AQA A-level English Literature A (7712), Version 1.7.1, 1 October 2025; AQA A-level English Literature B (7717), Version 1.5.1, 1 October 2025; OCR A Level English Literature (H472), Version 2.2, October 2026
Which moment most unsettles the comic resolution of Twelfth Night?
Question 61 mark
Closed book or clean copy, as the paper allows
AQA A 7712, AQA B 7717, OCR H472
Spec and skills
Paper scope: AQA A Every paper; AQA B Every paper; OCR Every component
Topic spec AQA A Every paper
Topic spec AQA B Every paper
Topic spec OCR Every component
Skill: ale-k02-genre
Knowledge check
AQA A-level English Literature A (7712), Version 1.7.1, 1 October 2025; AQA A-level English Literature B (7717), Version 1.5.1, 1 October 2025; OCR A Level English Literature (H472), Version 2.2, October 2026
Why is The Importance of Being Earnest usually called a comedy of manners?
